Classic Augustine: A too small soul
“The house of my soul is to small for you to enter: make it more spacious by your coming” Continue reading Classic Augustine: A too small soul
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A Stout Heart
“What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.” Augustine of Hippo from The City of God Continue reading A Stout Heart
Worship a counter-formation
This is such a helpful quotation from James K.A. Smith: “Christian worship, we should recognize, is essentially a counterformation to those rival liturgies we are often immersed in, cultural practices that covertly capture our loves and longings, miscalibrating them, orienting us to rival versions of the good life. This is why worship is the heart of discipleship” (pg25) Continue reading Worship a counter-formation
Bookshelf: My best book from 2020
If I was only allowed to recommend one book to you that I’ve read in 2020, I would reach for James K.A. Smith’s ‘You are what you love‘! Much of the book explores Augustine’s great idea: “You have made us for yourself, and our heart is restless until it rests in you”. It really is a brilliant, brilliant book!I was going to drop in a … Continue reading Bookshelf: My best book from 2020
Christ came chiefly for …
“Christ came chiefly for this reason: that we might learn how much God loves us, and might learn this to the end that we begin to glow with love of him by whom we were first loved, and so might love our neighbour at the bidding and after the example of him who made himself our neighbour by loving us.” St. Augustine Continue reading Christ came chiefly for …
